This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinaryproject aims to explore the processes by which weattempt to create meaning in chronic illness. Theapparent increase in and diversity of chronicconditions calls for better understandings of thespaces between health and illness that chronicpatients occupy, often for most of their lives.How can we articulate the tension between thebiomedical model of chronicity and its embodiedexperience? What language and other forms ofrepresentation can we use to map, chart and beginto explore the meanings possible within suchspaces? What insights can these provide to informbetter chronic care management? What is therelationship between chronicity and wellbeing? Howdo individuals, societies and cultures make senseof chronicity?

5. Coping with CI- chronic pain- managing chronic illness/self-managing chronicillness- life, time and reinventing meaning- healthcare and CI- living well

Papers will be accepted which deal with relatedareas and themes.

The 2012 meeting of Making Sense Of: Chronicitywill run alongside the fifth of our projects onMaking Sense Of: Madness and we anticipate holdingsessions in common between the two projects. Wewelcome any papers or panels considering theproblems or addressing issues that cross bothprojects. Papers will be considered on any relatedtheme. 300 word abstracts should be submitted byFriday 16th March 2012. If an abstract is acceptedfor the conference, a full draft paper should besubmitted by Friday 22nd June 2012. 300 wordabstracts should be submitted to the OrganisingChairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, orRTF formats, following this order:

Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstainfrom using any special formatting, characters oremphasis (such as bold, italics or underline).Please note that a Book of Abstracts is plannedfor the end of the year. All accepted abstractswill be included in this publication. Weacknowledge receipt and answer to all paperproposals submitted. If you do not receive a replyfrom us in a week you should assume we did notreceive your proposal; it might be lost incyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for analternative electronic route or resend.

The conference is part of the 'Making Sense Of:'series of research projects. The aim of theconference is to bring together people fromdifferent areas and interests to share ideas andexplore various discussions which are innovativeand exciting. All papers accepted for andpresented at this conference are eligible forpublication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers maybe invited to go forward for development into athemed ISBN hard copy volume.